Earlier this month, I presented in Dubai at the second annual TechEd Middle East . TechEd was held under the patronage of the Crown Prince of Dubai , who also visited on-site. There were 20 primary countries represented, and it was an important...

Here’s a link to a CodeRadio podcast that I recorded with Ariel Ben-Horesh and Shay Friedman : http://www.coderadio.co.il/?p=48 You can find more information about Ariel on his blog . Shay is a C#/IronRuby MVP and author of IronRuby Unleashed . They asked...

Tonight at DevConnections , Senior Director Dave Mendlen announced that XNA support will be coming to Visual Basic. This is part of Microsoft’s co-evolution strategy , whereby we are providing equal access to Microsoft technologies for both C# and...

Overview Last November (28-30), I presented at TechEd Israel 2010 . TechEd Israel is a good-sized event, with 3000 people in attendance this year (which is a huge number given the size of the country). There was a lot of focus on the Cloud...

I was asked to write a few book forewords this year. I’ve included the contents below. I hope you will read the forewords and check out the books! I’ve also written past excerpts for Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Sara Ford and Visual Basic 2008 - Neue...

I often get asked for good VS 2010 book recommendations on the topics my team (VS Pro) is working on: C#, VB.NET, F#, VS IDE, VS Extensibility. Here are some recent titles to check out. You can also find a growing list on our MSDN developer centers: C#...

Join me March 24th at 10am PST for a Visual Studio 2010 Tips & Tricks session on Linked In . This session will be presented over Live Meeting, and is organized by the Linked In .NET Developer User Group ( LIDNUG ). LIDNUG: Visual Studio 2010 Tips...

Jesse Liberty has a great podcast show called “Yet Another Podcast” . I spent some time with Jesse at the last PDC in Redmond, where we chatted about some recent releases: - Microsoft® Visual Basic® CTP for Windows® Phone Developer Tools: http://go.microsoft...

I’m taking a few posts to catch up on past events. Here’s a 6min video interview that I came across, which I recorded with Ed and Ashley at PDC 09. At that time, both were attending the event as students. I ran into them last month at TechReady 12, an...